A seaworthy adventure tale
There is no one-legged Captain Ahab but there is Herman Melville himself in In The Heart Of The Sea, a high-seas romp about greedy harpooners and a leviathan from the depth that ends with a thought on naturalism. The monomania that drives men to their demise, as in Moby-Dick, is touched upon here though not pursued to its darkest inevitability, and yet that doesn’t stop the Ron Howard’s film from…